{"id":344,"date":"2004-05-26T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-24T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T02:52:14","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/344\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mythic put up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camelotherald.com\/more\/1497.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">patch<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camelotherald.com\/more\/1495.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">previous one<\/a> which generated the feedback you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/foolies\/archives\/2004-05\/f00lish_feedback.html\" target=\"_blank\">around here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This new patch is an absurd, insanely complex system with a new series of mini-timesinks worst than before. But it has the pill to make the playerbase shut up:<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll earn a few Realm Points while dead.<\/p>\n<p>Only a single intelligent and honest player has been able to see through the trickery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>All I see here is that my wizard will get more RP&#8217;s than he is used to because he will get them while dead.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I imagined that my feedback couldn&#8217;t go anywhere but the actual result made me feel really cheated and depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Even more frustrated when I read Sanya&#8217;s words: <i>overall more fair and fun.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Laying on the ground, dead. Fun.<\/p>\n<p>But you receive RPs. Ahhh, the treadmill. The excuse of the shit of the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>We want achievement. We don&#8217;t want to interact, we seek to climb the social and (enter x here) ladder. I wonder what happens when our culture stops judging its achivements by ladders (i.e. college and business rank, etc) and instead do what they want?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is Galt. The whole thing makes me feel so disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>Even games have responsibilities. We are teaching everyone how the world is shit. Instead of doing something to move things somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Toward an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/ravings\/archives\/2004-05\/right_out_of_the_box.html\" target=\"_blank\">healthy competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythic put up a patch to the previous one which generated the feedback you can find around here. This new patch is an absurd, insanely complex system with a new series of mini-timesinks worst than before. But it has the pill to make the playerbase shut up: You&#8217;ll earn a few Realm Points while dead. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-daoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}